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SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit is a user interface library for Java maintained by the Eclipse Foundation. SWT uses native widgets wherever possible to provide a look and feel consistent with the host platform.
SWT is a third-party library (not included in the JVM) and applications that rely on ...

About a year ago, I wrote a small Checkers game as part of some study assignment. The code files was laying around on a flash drive ever since, and recently I decided to revive it and make it better, ...

I have an RCP Application with a ViewPart that has a toolbar with some Actions on it. These Actions are put on the toolbar by the system as simple Buttons with an icon and a tooltip.
The Action looks ...

I want to display different tooltip text for each element in SWT combo widget. I found two similar questions but none of them seems to solve the question. 1) Set tooltip text for each element in an ...

I am writing an application that are loading datas from a database.. In that time the GUI stucks, because I am only using one thread.
So, I want to improve my app by adding a loading dialog such as ...

There is an autocomplete option for text box.
First time - when the user types 2 characters it will fetch the values from an API method and it will suggest the autocomplete option. This is fine. but ...

I've got a Java application that uses SWT as its widget toolkit.
I've also got a Windows C# application.
I'd like a way to draw an SWT Composite into this C# application.
I can think of two ways to ...

does someone know if the Browser Widget of SWT support Websockets? I tried to
run an webapp inside an eclipse e4 application (with web socket connection) and it seems that the Browser Widget doesn't ...

We still have some Oracle Forms applications where I work and, in one of them, we need to embed a webpage which will itself contain an applet... Pretty much the only solution I found to achieve this ...

I am having a tree structure information in my SWT application, That i want to export in HTML file in same as it is means collapsible and expandable.
I had look in to this that i need to write some ...

I am currently developing an eclipse plugin which displays DOT-Graphs. For this purpose I make use of this plugin. However, I have no idea how to actually display the graph which I built. I want to ...

The SWT List lets both left and up arrow keys to go up the list items and both right and down arrow keys to go down the list items by default. But I want to use left and right arrow keys for another ...

I am writing SWTBot test case for my Eclipse E4 application.
In by setUp() (annotated with @Before), I am opening the part using the menu. I would like to close the same in tearDown (annotated with ...

I have read almost all documents pertaining to this topic and i haven't found the precise and correct answer.
I followed this link
The exact problem i facing is that i have followed this document and ...

I am trying to write a simple app that create a transparent overlay over the full screen and draw a line at my current mouse position. This line should then follow my mouse movements until mouse press ...

I've a weird issue,
I've a table with 2 columns and 3 rows
each cell text can be edited at run time, when I edit the cell in the 3rd row second column I get the upper cell modified too with the same ...

As mentioned in the title, I want to resize an SWT component inside a composite. I know that it can be done with a SashForm but unfortunately I cannot use it in my case.
My composite containes a text ...

I'm making a simple menu to delete items on a tree. However, after deleting the items, the tree does not receive a selection event, therefore, the code in the listener does not execute (the listener, ...

Im writing UI in Java, using SWT. I use in some places SWT List.
But when I have items in the list that their length is more than the list default width, I cannot see their whole text. not with End ...

I have an Eclipse RCP with a view whose Control is a CheckboxTableViewer.
I'd like to use the WorkbenchPage's SelectionService (for reasons of loose coupling) to react to check/uncheck actions within ...

There is no direct method to retrieve the selection index (LIKE getSelectionIndex() } for the selection(s) made on org.eclipse.jface.viewers.CheckBoxTreeViewer.
Any Help will be greatly appreciated ...